Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Airbnb's infrastructure team as an Engineering Manager and shape the vision and technical strategy for industry-leading, scalable globalization solutions. You will lead a team of high-performing engineers, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to optimize localization strategies. Leverage your expertise in backend distributed systems and AI/LLMs to drive cost reduction, quality improvement, and efficiency gains. This role requires extensive experience in engineering management and software development, along with strong communication and collaboration skills. Airbnb offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits, with remote work eligibility.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience
• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
• BS, MS or PhD in CS or related field
• Expertise in leading teams in the backend distributed systems domain
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading highly technical and senior teams and setting technical direction and strategy
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Able to work across teams and organizations on technical initiatives
• Able to retain, mentor, grow and hire senior engineers
• Able to effectively work with senior leadership in setting strategic 6+ month direction
• Able to contribute to culture choices and initiatives that positively impact all of engineering

Responsibilities

• Shape the vision, technical strategy / roadmap and deliver industry leading solutions that scale with the needs of our production backend, in partnership with other infrastructure and product teams at Airbnb leading charge of the company’s cloud native strategy
• Support the team in delivering infrastructure that balances reliability, efficiency and quality at scale, while making this layer easy to use and configurable for developers working on backend infrastructure
• Be conversant in systems design/architecture, reason about trade-offs, and ultimately own & defend technical decisions / technical direction for your team
• Have the technical acumen to partner with tech leads and comfortable helping drive incident resolution and deliver continuous improvement to team’s SLOs
• Partner with a broad range of cross-functional stakeholders to determine the right strategy for localization across asset categories
• Drive down costs, improve quality, and land efficiency wins via impactful optimizations and infrastructure upgrades
• Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers. Manage and mentor a team of engineers and be the guardian of our architecture

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits
• Pay Range: $204,000 — $259,000 USD
• US - Remote Eligible